I have a little Bayou 220 that I always keep stored at the house during the off season, and swap it around with a Honda Fourtrax once all the preseason work is done in the country.

Despite running it about once a month or so during the summer, I still find myself often having to clean the carb, despite keeping a little Sea Foam in the gas. The Sea Foam works great at keeping everything else running, but granted, everything else (lawn mowers, edger, etc.) gets a good, periodic workout.

This time I found a large accumulation of what looked like small balls of jelly piled up in the bottom of the carb near the end of the power jet. Flushed it out, as well as the Jets and float valve with a good spraying of carb cleaner and she runs like new.

Perhaps I should go back to my old practice of running the carb dry at the end of those brief, summer warm ups.

Perhaps I should go back to my old practice of running the carb dry at the end of those brief, summer warm ups.

This would be my advice. With my current lawn mower I shut off the gas valve and let it run out before I store it each week after I mow. I did the same with a 2001 Honda XR400 I had for a few years and it never had a problem.

Run all of the gas out each time you use it. I have a Husqvarna chain saw that is 28 yrs. old never had to clean the carb.when finished using it I pour all the gas out of the tank" because it doesn't have a shut off valve" I it start it let it run until it dies, put the choke on start it and run it till it dies again. you will good to go next time you use it.

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FIL had the same model. Left it sit for a few years with gas in it. I cleaned it out good and it fired right off and ran good for a day or so then started not wanting to idle etc. I pulled it apart again and cleaned some silty looking goo out of the carb bowl and jet reasebled and repeated. The float was deteriorating inside the carb and gumming up the jet. Could be your problem if you haven't replaced the float.

What exactly does the marine stabil do? To my knowledge it is a fuel stabilizer and that is about it, it doesn't remove the ethanol from the gas. I don't believe it prevents the ethanol from harming non ethanol resistant components.

What exactly does the marine stabil do? To my knowledge it is a fuel stabilizer and that is about it, it doesn't remove the ethanol from the gas. I don't believe it prevents the ethanol from harming non ethanol resistant components.